Christian Ristow: Metal Art

Ristow_by Jason Lester Photography

Christian Ristow has been making robotic kinetic art for quite a long time now. His sculptures have been seen at several Maker Faires, as well as at music and art festivals all over the US and internationally. Christian will give a talk about his work, and looks forward to answering your questions!

The Good Life Lab: Radical Experiments in Hands on Living

by Wendy Jehanara Tremayne

Wendy presents the material in her new book, The Good Life Lab, which contains the inspirational story of how they ditched their careers in New York City to move to rural New Mexico, where they made, built, invented, foraged, and grew all they needed to live self-sufficiently. Alongside their personal story they present the discovery of a fulfilling lifestyle that relies less on money. They teach the art living from waste and from nature and teach how to make biofuel, DIY appliances for automating the homestead, build structures, gardens, and grow and forage food, and medicine. They present reasons for makers to share their innovations and ideas through open source and creative commons licenses.

Wendy will be speaking and selling her book, The Good Life Lab: Radical Experiments in Hands-On Living at Albuquerque Mini-Maker Faire this August.

Christian Ristow has been making robotic kinetic art for quite a long time now. His sculptures have been seen at several Maker Faires, as well as at music and art festivals all over the US and internationally. Christian hails from Taos, New Mexico!